Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance [electronic resource] : Reimagining the Future /
Gill, S.editor.
The contributors highlight alternative imaginaries and social forces harnessing new organizational and political forms to counter and displace dominant strategies of rule. They suggest that to address intensifying economic, ecological and ethical crises far more effective, legitimate and far-sighted forms of global governance are required.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Acronyms; 1 Reimagining the Future: Some Critical Reflections; Global governance as it is and as it ought to be; Liberal, Realist and Cosmopolitan perspectives; Critical intellectual perspectives; The organic crisis of global governance; Ecological myopia of global governance; Business as usual? Global economic governance; Overview of the contributions; 2 Horizons of Global Governance; Critiquing horizons of feasibility; Hard power fallacies; Neoliberal fallacies
Delimiting horizons of necessityThe emergence of horizons of desperation; The role of horizons of desire; Geopolitical management of world politics; Reframing the search for policy in a globalizing world; Concluding conjectures; 3 Income Inequality and the Future of Global Governance; Introduction; Neoliberalism as governance; The rich and the rest; Restoration strategies; The public austerity fiasco; Economic inequality and the future of global governance; 4 Beyond Inequality: Expulsions; Expanding the operational space of advanced capitalism
The limits of current global governance mechanismsWhen logics of extraction expand the terrain for advanced capitalism; Debt as a disciplining regime; The repositioning of territory in the global division of functions; Counter-geographies of survival; Conclusion: the expulsion of people and the incorporation of terrain; Appendix; 5 New Constitutionalism, Democracy and the Future of Global Governance; Democratic governance; Nuts and bolts of the investment treaty regime; Bilateral investment treaties, NAFTA and the public interest; Environmental regulation
Services privatization and emergency measuresHuman rights and land reform; The rule of law, democracy and investor-state discipline; 6 Trade Agreements and Progressive Governance; The new trade and investment regimes; Public services; Confining public services within existing boundaries; Increasing the bargaining power of global corporations; Applying pro-competitive regulation to previously socialized services; Locking in future privatization; Shifting the balance against public services; Environmental regulation; Trade and investment agreements and the internationalizing of the state
Dynamics of trade and investment agreementsConclusion; 7 Towards Gendered Global Economic Governance: A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Social Forces; Introduction; Global economic governance transformed: from embedded liberalism to disciplinary neoliberalism; Locking in market-led development through new constitutionalism; Reimagining global economic governance through a gendered analysis; Ideas; Institutions; Power potentials; 8 Remaking Progressive Global Governance: SomeReflections with Reference to the Judiciary and the Rule of Law; The three Gs: Governments, Governance and Governmentality
'International', 'global' and 'human' security
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The contributors highlight alternative imaginaries and social forces harnessing new organizational and political forms to counter and displace dominant strategies of rule. They suggest that to address intensifying economic, ecological and ethical crises far more effective, legitimate and far-sighted forms of global governance are required.
Political economy.
International organization.
Economic policy.
Sociology.
Political science.
Globalization.
International Political Economy.
International Organization.
Economic Policy.
Sociology, general.
Political Science.
Globalization.